Baling-machine.



T. 000K, H. T. JOHNSON 1&1. E. T. FOOT.

ALmG. MAcmNe. APPLICATION` FILED JUNE 2&1917- Patented Mar. 19, 1918.

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T. COOK, H. T. JOHNSON &v1. E. T. FOOT' BALING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED luNE 26. |917.

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- illustrate the essential features of our inven-` 'Y l pressing purposesis carried out byrmeansof UNirnn sTATiis THOMAS COOK, 0F STALYBRIDGE, AND HENRY 'Il I-IEIOlIIILU'S JOHNSON AND JAMES PATENT OFFICE.

EDTARDv THOMAS FOOT, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

BALING-MACHIN E.

To all lwhom t may concern:

' Be it known that we, THOMAS COOK, HENRY THEOPHILUS JOHNSON, and JAMES' EDWARD THOMAS FOOT, subjects ofthe King of Great Britain and'Ireland, and residents respectively, of Stalybridge, inthe county of l Chester, London, in the county of London, and London, in the county ofy London, England, have invented certain Improvements to Ealing-Machines, of which the following is a specification. Y' This invention relates to improvements in baling presses or machines and is adapted to compress into bales of any suitable dimensions, paper, cotton, wool, hay, metal turnings, borings or ythe like and generally waste or other materials of or .from manufactures capable of Or requiring to be compressed into small compass, our object being to provide a powerful press of simple con struction which can be operatedl entirely by hand or partly by hand andpower or by power alone. Y

With the aforesaid objects in view our invention comprises a press box having a hinged cover to forni theA top `ofthe box and a hinged door at one side or'end, a ram withinthe box Operated by a chain or cablewgear conveniently connected to it and to driven pulleys, preferably of vthe fusee type, said fusee pulleys being arranged to exert a gradually-increasing pressure upon the materialv being compressed as said material increases in density, fusee and cham or cable gear for returning the ram toV initial position after ythe compressing Operation and means for driving the various parts of the press.

.Our invention will be fully described with reference to the accompanying drawings in which,

Figure l. is a side elevationof so much of our improved machine as is necessary to tion, n

Fig. 2. plan ofsame,

Fig'. 3; longitudinal side elevation in sec# tionand s I Fig. Ll. transverse section: of the machine on line 1 '2 of Figf. Y f

In carryingv out Vour invention, which is shown as a horizontal pressthough 'with Specification of Letters Patent. `Iiellted Malt. 19, 1918.

Application filedl J une 26, 1917. A Serial No. 177,135. i I

slight modiiicationsit may be arranged ver4 tically, we provide a press box a of conven. ient form and dimensions, which may be supported at its inner end bythe main headstock framing b and at its outer endl by a foot c. In the drawings the box a' is shown of semi-circular form such as we-use when compressing metal turnings, borings orV the like into cylindrical'- form, the top sectionv of thevbox being completed'by a cover d of substantially semiecircular cross section, pivoted on shaft e which is bent at one end 'f to carry counterweights g or is provided with a separate arm secured to the shaft and` 'carrying weights as aforesaid, said weights control ing the raising and lowering of the cover'out of and into working position within the box. A handle his used to assist in the operation. The end of the press box may be solid, as shown in Fig. 3. or itmay be adapted to be hinged to enable the product compressed to be removed, but we prefer to make it solid as indicated and to employ a hinged side door z' which canbe turned down `to remove the product from the box.y Normally the door i is held in position by means of a catch leverj pivoted'at lc and arranged to engage .with a catch m at the end of the box and` with the side of the box at n for ppassing up the end of the ybox and over the top where `it terminates in a handle. g. To the handleportion is 'pivoted a short level-r carrying a pulley s which rests upon the cables or chains one end ofk each 'of which is securedV at'the largestdiameter of fusee pulleys 3/ iixedupon a shaft .e journaled in thepheadstock framing b, the cables being passed overi'guide pulleys 2 also mounted upon a shaft or studs '3 carried by the framing b.. The cables passrearwardly from` the the purpose of holding the leverr opivoted at fusees over pulleys l mounted upon the'ends of a transverse arm 5 pivoted at its middle part by la vertical pin 10 to the rear end of the ram so that said arm may have a comthroughblocks 8 carried by or forming part' of the arm 5, such arrangement enabling the cables to be adjusted as required. The usee shaft e is driven by a train of gear wheels 9 from the main operating shaft 10 of themachine upon which is located a pair of fast and loose pulleys 11 and which has fixed upon it a pinion 12 forming the lirst member of the gear train. It will, therefore, be seen that the operation of the chain, spur wheel, fuseeV and cable gear forces the ram forward to compress the material which is placed in the press box by first lifting up the cover al to admit it and closing such cover and locking it in position. It will also be observed that when the ram is at the rearward end of its stroke the material is in comparatively loose condition with the fusees acting upon the cables at their largest diameters. As the fusees rotate and the ram advances the cableis acted upon by a gradually-decreasing leverage of the fusee and consequently the greatest power can be exerted upon the ram at the time the compressed material arrives at its maximum density. The ram may be arranged to cause the driving belt to slip on the driving pulley as the maximum pressure is exerted when themachine ycan be `stopped by hand or, preferably, we arrange the ram to automatically` stop the machine at a definite point in its traverse. To this end we mount upon the upper side of the ram anadjustable inclined plate 13 adapted to engage with a pulley or roller 14 carried at the lower end of a slidable rod 15. lThe upper end of the rod 15 is operatively connected with the horizontally slidable bar 16 of the belt fork 18. The bar 16 slides in guide brackets 17, and when the rod 15 is pushed upwardly the belt fork 18 shifts the driving belt from the fastto the loose pulley. 1f desired the shaft 10 may have fixed'uponl the opposite end to the pinionv 12 a ratchet vwheel a engaging with a pivoted pawl a to holdv the parts, including the ram, in the position to which it has been I moved and prevent the ram being forced backward by the resilience of the material compressed. By releasing the pawl thesaid' material may act to partially return the ram for a very short distance but for the purpose of positively returning the ram to initial position we employ a third fusee 19 iixed upon shaft a lto which is connected one end fusee around the Apulley 21 carried by the y ram, its end being taken rearwardly and secured to a clamp 22 which, in turn, is coupled to a rod 23 anchored to a spring 24., the frame 25 upon which the spring is mounted being coupled to an adjustable rod 25 secured toa bracket 26. By rotating the driving shaft in the opposite direction the third cable draws the ram rearwardly as it coils upon its fusee and at the same time the compressing cables are unwound from their fusees when the machine is ready for the next operation.

We also provide means for checking the momentum of the geared parts of the machine as the ram is being returned to initial position for the purpose of preventing overrunningv of the ram in a backward direction.

For this purpose we fix on shaft 10 brake drum 27 against which a brake block 28 can be pressed. This block is fixed on one arm V30 of a belt crank-lever 29 pivoted on the frame stay 81, the other arm 32 passing downward into the path of a stud 33 adjustable longitudinally along the ram. When the latter is traversing rearwardly the stud 33 engages arm 32 and forces the 1 brake block 28 against the brake drum 27, thus/stopping the machine.

We'would have it understood that in place of the three fusees we may employ ordinary cylindrical pulleys upon which the chains are wound or unwound, but we prefer the fusees particularly in connection with the compressing mechanism for the reason already stated. v

Having lnow particularly described' and ascertained the nature of our said invention and in what manner the same `is to be performed, we declare that what we claim is 1. In a `baling press, a press chamber formed of two longitudinal parts, the jupper part having its front end pivoted to the lower part and beingV movable, a lever pivoted at one end below the lower part of thc press chamber at the rear end thereof and extending upwardly across its rear end yand projecting forwardly over the rear end portion of the movable part, and a bell-crank locking lever pivoted to the upper end portion of the aforesaid lever and adapted to bear on the said movable part.

2. In a baling press,'a press chamber, aram slidable therein, a revoluble driving shaft, intermediate driving mechanism for sliding the ram in the press chamber when the driving shaft is revolved, a brakel drum secured on the driving shaft, a pivoted brake lever provided with a brake block for bearing on the brake drum, and means for operating the said brake lever from the ram at apredetermined point of its travel to check the motion of the said driving'mechanism.

3. In a press for the purposes referred to, In testimony whereof We have hereunto 1o Y the means for checking the momentum of setour hands in the presence of two Witthe geared parts of the maehme, eomprlsnesses;

ing a brake drum on the power shaft,` a THOMAS COOK. brake block adjacent thereto, a pvoted le-` HENRY THEOPHILUS JOHNSON. Ver one arm of which carries the brake block JAMES EDWARD THOMAS FOOT. While the other arm depends alongside the W'tnesses:

press ram `and anadjustable stud on the WILLIAM W. TAYLOR,

press ram to Contact with the arm. MARGARET E. RAMSBOTTOM.

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